why agile?

Tiago Garcez@tcgarcez

Agile Tour BrusselsSeptember 2013

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it just works !

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what is agile?

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group of software development practices

iterative & incremental

evolving requirements & solutions

self-organizing, cross-functional teams

time-boxed

adaptive planning and responsive to change

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a set of values & principles

holistic view of the organization

shuns local optimums throughput

people

non-predictive

in the present

non-heroic

anarchic

value

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“we are uncoveringbetter ways...”

non-dogmatic

continuously improving

co-evolving

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Kanban

Scrum

Lean SoftwareDevelopment

Crystal Clear

XP

Lean Startup

Complex AdaptiveSystems

Beyond Budgeting

eXtreme Manufacturing

Context-Driven Testing

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think beyond software

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what is agile?

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agile is what good companies do when the

sh*t hits the fan

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team 1 team 2 team 3 team 4 team 5

face to face communication

email communication

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Source: Harvard Business Review, April 2012, “The New Science of Building Great Teams”

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agile is what good companies do when the

sh*t hits the fan

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agile is what good companies do when the

sh*t hits the fan

great

all the time

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why agile?

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agile is about teamsthe basic building block of organizations

in the knowledge economy

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group exchanges are shortand to the point

small teams

face to face communication up to 35% impact on performance

co-located

one-on-one exchanges

Source: Harvard Business Review, April 2012, “The New Science of Building Great Teams”

communication as key predictor of success

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agile is non-predictive

prediction = guess

opportunity cost

manage today, not tomorrow

distribution of cognition

evolutionary not deterministic

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agile loves failure

fast & cheap

continual improvement

exploration

pivot & innovate

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agile is anti-fragile

nimble, lean organizations

comfortable with uncertainty

small bets with huge upside

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agile is about small wins

big is out (complexity) the hero myth

the knowledge economy is about the start-up mentality

continual improvement

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agile is universalit can benefit any team or organization

from charities to modular carsand everythingin between

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innovation

operationalexcellence

wild westhighly regulated

fastteamwork

pivot

collaborationrisk management

continuous alignment

lead timeflexible

responsive to market

qualitycraftsmanship

waste reduction

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innovation

operationalexcellence

wild westhighly regulated

everybody?aircraft manufacturingenergy

electronics manufacturingless-regulated manufacturing?

traditional manufacturingmining

open-sourcexp / scrum

lean-startupscrum

lean / beyond budgetingkanban / scrum

leanopen-source / scrum

wikispeed valve, spotify, ...

toyota morning star

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agile is a big enough umbrella

tribes generate diversity and an eco-system of ideas

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agile is about valuecost has a limit, value does not - agile exploits this asymmetry

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agile is fun !

“morale as multiplier of velocity” - j. justice

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individualism(heroes)

team culture(collaboration)

mythology / philosophy

intrinsicmotivation

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agile is simplicity

not the same thing as simple

it’s about limiting the amount of guesses(i.e. your exposure to black swans)

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agile is about reality

we leave utopia to the predictive planning guys

“I don’t know”

illusion of control

craftsmanship

manage today

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what is impossible ?impossible is the predictive, command &

control mentality creating great companies

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why agile ?

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because surviving is just not good enough

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the king is dead,long live the king

R.I.P.

PredictiveManagement

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because we can change the world of work

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because we can change the world of work

must

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@tcgarcez

www.slideshare.net/tgarcez

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toyota production system “meals p/ hour”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtTQff7Uf_w

harvard business review (apr, 2012): “the new science of building great teams”:http://hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams

wikispeed (extreme manufacturing):joe justice ALE 2013 keynote - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHgWCnttsc

homepage - http://wikispeed.org/

“anti-fragile”, nassim nicholas taleb

“black swan”, nassim nicholas taleb

“wisdom of crowds”, james surowiecki

Bibliography

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